The Conrad First archives includes a number of items of particular rarity, importance, or novelty:
Notable magazine serializations
“The Idiots” in The Savoy (London, UK), October 1896.
All Conrad’s contributions to Blackwood’s Magazine (Edinburgh, UK), 1897-1902. Includes famous thousandth issue for February 1899 containing “The Heart of Darkness”.
Conrad’s contributions to Harper’s Weekly and Harper’s Magazine (New York, NY, USA), 1905-1911.
Nostromo in T.P.’s Weekly (London, UK), 29 January-7 October, 1904.
Complete run.
All Conrad’s contributions to The Pall Mall Magazine (London, UK), 1902-1913.
All Conrad’s contributions to The Times (London, UK), 1904-1925.
All Conrad’s contributions to The London Magazine (London, UK), 1906-1912.
All Conrad’s contributions to The Metropolitan Magazine (New York, NY, USA), 1905-1918.
Almost all of Conrad’s contributions to The English Review (London, UK), 1908-1917.
Notable newspaper serializations
All Conrad’s contributions to The Daily Mail (London, UK), 1904-1924. XX
“Gaspar Ruiz: The Story of a Guerilla Chief” in The Saturday Evening Post (New York, NY, USA), 28 July-18 August 1906.
Chance in The New York Herald (New York, NY, USA), 21 January-30 June 1912. Complete run, including a colour facsimile for 26 May 1912.
Conrad’s account of visiting Poland for The Daily News & Leader (London, UK), April 1915.
Victory in The Star (London, UK), 24 August-9 November 1915, and John O’London’s Weekly (London, UK), 30 October 1926-14 May 1927.
“Amy Foster” in Poland (New York, NY, USA), June-August 1924.
Notable illustrated serializations
“Amy Foster” in The Illustrated London News (London, UK), 14-28 December, 1901. Complete run.
“Un Avant-poste de la civilisation” (“An Outpost of Progress”) in Les Nouvelles Illustrées (Paris, France), 22-29 January 1903. Illustrated with contemporary photographs of the Congo Free State.
The Arrow of Gold in Lloyd’s Magazine (London, UK), December 1918-February 1920. Complete run.
The Rover in The Pictorial Review (New York, NY, USA), September-December 1923. Complete run.
Rediscovered and rare serializations
Selected issues of Tit-Bits (London, UK), May-August 1886. Features the Competition for Sailors to which Conrad unsuccessfully submitted his first work of fiction.
Romance in St John Daily Sun (New Brunswick, Canada), 10 March-1 June 1906, and St Paul Globe (St Paul, MN, USA). Novel (co-authored with Ford Madox Ford) previously thought unserialized in Conrad’s lifetime.
“Ships and the Sea” in Metropolitan Magazine (New York, NY, USA), May 1906. New addition to Conrad’s serial bibliography.
The Secret Agent in Ridgway’s Magazine (New York, NY, USA), 6 October-15 December 1906. Complete run.
“Preface to Nostromo” in Reedy’s Mirror (St Louis, MO, USA), 25 December 1917. New addition to Conrad’s serial bibliography.
The Rescue in Land & Water (London, UK), 7 February-31 July 1919
Complete run.
“Tradition” in The British Legion Journal (London, UK), 14 July 1921.
Almayer’s Folly in The Boston Post (Boston, MA, USA), 9 September 1923. New addition to Conrad’s serial bibliography of a novel previously thought unserialized in his lifetime.
The Rover in The Des Moines Sunday Register (Des Moines, IA, USA), 1925. New addition to Conrad’s serial bibliography.
The Rescue in The Malayan Saturday Post (Singapore), 30 March-13 April 1929. New addition to Conrad’s serial bibliography.
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Notable translations
Almayer’s Folly as Almayers Luftkasteel in Het Nieuws van de Dag (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 5 May-13 June 1896. Earliest known translation and first serialization of Conrad’s writing.
“The Return” as “Die Heimkehr” in Deutsche Rundschau (Berlin, Germany), January-February 1906. Story previously thought unserialized in Conrad’s lifetime.
“Falk” in La Revue de Paris (Paris, France), 1 December 1930-15 January 1931. Story previously thought unserialized in Conrad’s lifetime.
“First News” as “Premières nouvelles” in Fontaine (Algiers, Algeria), January 1944.
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